tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5102619445313518313.post5597597039158957884..comments2013-05-23T13:03:15.663+01:00Comments on Playing the game (real adventures in journalism): Pay attention to the small printUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5102619445313518313.post-48661421185857184342010-01-19T15:41:26.343+00:002010-01-19T15:41:26.343+00:00BLUNT: 'If council newspapers get the heave ho...BLUNT: 'If council newspapers get the heave ho will the management dickheads put that extra revenue back into the papers. Will they fuck.<br />They will just carrying on bleeding the market dry until it's time to discard the husk the local paper now is and move on.'<br /><br />Love this blog, and you are right on the money with the above.<br /><br />Roy Greenslade et al having been making a fuss about how the arrival of a council paper in Hammersmith and Fulham has been 'disastrous' for the Fulham Chronicle, which Trinity have just turned into a free.<br /><br />Before we all get the Truth, Justice & Democracy banners out, two facts - <br />1. The Chronicle was hanging over the cliff long before the council paper arrived. Under Trinity ownership the paper lost its office and dedicated editor, reporting and photographic team. All years before the council launched a monthly, then, fortnightly, paper, and long before the recession. It is now run from an office miles away in Surrey. <br />2. Interestingly, the highly talented journalists producing the flagship h&fnews for the council are former Trinity employees with direct experience of the business's cutbacks (or 'rationalisations' as the big regional groups like to call it when they ratchet up the profits at the expense of the product and staff).<br /><br />There's always more to these stories than the obvious intro.Just moving the smokescreen...noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5102619445313518313.post-71965092242357367672010-01-19T01:22:40.478+00:002010-01-19T01:22:40.478+00:00That statement by the MP on what's happened to...That statement by the MP on what's happened to the Uxbridge Gazette is a bit of a spine tingler. I know the paper (Trinity Mirror) and he's spot on - and it's the same story elsewhere.<br />The Gazette and its sister papers across the Trinity South empire have no editors, just 'multimedia content managers' in charge of a geographical 'market' within which a reduced number of what used to be called reporters operate. These content providers are not attached to any newspaper, either. They don't have offices or allocated desks, and work remotely on laptops, taking pix with mobiles. They simply send stuff to Chertsey in Surrey where a multimedia production team slap it onto the web and print pages.<br />Haven't seen anything on the MP's speech in the Gazette of course... Hmmm, if he'd emailed it in as a press release someone in leafy Surrey might have dropped it in, word for unsubbed word, to a matching hole left for a page lead!SPOT ONnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5102619445313518313.post-45287684296531062272010-01-15T13:51:38.260+00:002010-01-15T13:51:38.260+00:00And could I learn to spell? Though, not thought.And could I learn to spell? Though, not thought.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5102619445313518313.post-85341477980299126682010-01-15T13:50:58.869+00:002010-01-15T13:50:58.869+00:00Nice post. Could you close the italics tag thought...Nice post. Could you close the italics tag thought?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com